Motivational Quotes

Life

This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Life

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.